The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 72 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Watch our new Postcard Pearls, brief videos blending old postcards with the locations today. Watch #1 Frere Hall Karachi and #2 Sukkur: Bridge on the Indus.

Water Maid. Jaipur. ca 1910	Srimati Sarojini Naidu ca 1928	Moplah Women ca 1905
Bombay, Bara Bazaar ca 1905	Returning Caravans Khyber Pass ca 1925	In the Market, Bangalore. ca 1910
Bombay View 1899	[Fakir Benares] ca 1915	Sir William Wedderburn ca 1905
Vishwamitra-Menaka ca 1905	Sadh Bela Built in the Indus - Sukkur ca 1940	Mar Nala, Srinagar Kashmir ca 1904
Lala Lajpat Rai ca 1929	Wayfarers ca 1905	Benares - Assec [Assi] Ghat ca 1905
Ranjit Singh's Tomb, Lahore ca 1908	General View of Victoria Gardens, Bombay ca 1905	Views of Madras ca 1903
Interior of Walkeshwar Temple ca 1905	Benares - Viweshar Mahadeo ca 1910	A Wet Day, Madras ca 1905
Two American Congress Supporters ca 1931	A Typical Yarkundi ca 1903	Vishnu Garud-vahan ca 1905
A Mhamadan [Mohammadan] Mullah, N.W.F.P. ca 1920	The Residency Quetta ca 1905	A Tailor ca 1903
Hindu Colonnade of Pillars of Pure Hindu Architecture Belonging to the 9th of 10th Century, Delhi ca 1905	Natives of Sind, (Amil Rage) ca 1903	Jaipur Woman ca 1905

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